Category: America

The legality of retroactive abortion

  A writer’s up, down digits   Dear editor: I wonder if we letter writers have the privilege of expressing our own “Thumbs-ups” and “Thumbs-downs.” I would give a Thumbs-up to our tough Arkansas Republicans for having a lot more mettle and tenacity than the RINOs in Washington for protecting our unborn children. By the …

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The most dangerous enemy

Bradley Manning’s American dream, if only… By Mark LeVine, 04 Mar 2013 15:10   Bradley Manning obviously still believes in America, in a country that cares about the rule of law, fairness and human rights for all. His naivete might well cost him his freedom for the rest of his life. Reading through Manning’s statement …

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I have refused to surrender

We are fighting for all Palestinians By Samer Issawi, Sunday 3 March 2013 12.00 EST   My story is no different from that of many other Palestinian young people who were born and have lived their whole lives under Israeli occupation. At 17, I was arrested for the first time, and jailed for two years. …

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We must fear them, hate them

War on terror is the West’s new religion By Robert Fisk, Sunday 24 February 2013   Mohamed al-Zawahiri, younger brother of Osama bin Laden’s successor, Ayman, made a particularly intriguing statement in Cairo last month. Talking to that wonderful French institution Le Journal du Dimanche about Mali, he asked the paper to warn France “and …

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Paul Newman is dead

Israel’s Script Turns Sour By Lisa Goldman, February 22, 2013   For years, Paul Newman and his blue eyes shaped America’s perception of Israel. Newman starred in Exodus, a 1960 Hollywood blockbuster set in 1947, the final year of the British mandate in Palestine. The film depicts Ari Ben Canaan, played by Newman, as an …

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I am mystified

    Peril of gun confiscation   Dear editor: I keep hearing and reading that there needs to be “discussion” on the gun control issue, but the “discussion” ends up being one sided — the liberal, anti-Second Amendment side. Chuck Baldwin (http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/) has a lot to say on the subject and it would be worth …

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And thus absurdity reigns

O to have been born a Jew By Oudeh Basharat, Feb.08, 2013 3:41 AM   In Israel there is an entire population sector whose name begins with “non” – “the non-Jewish sector.” Please do not take this as an insult, dear sector, whose name is nothing but the negative of another name, and if you …

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